Author: Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

Pentagon warns troops to avoid eating poppy seeds. The baked-good favorite can spark a false-positive drug test.

An F-16 shot down the object Sunday afternoon at the direction of President Biden, the Pentagon said.

The Pentagon didn’t shoot down the Chinese balloon as it approached Alaska in January because it did not pose a military threat , a top commander said.

A Chinese spy balloon is drifting over the northern United States. Pentagon officials have considered shooting it down.

Ashton Carter, who served as Defense secretary in the final two years of the Obama administration, died on Monday after a ‘sudden cardiac event.’

The Department of Defense estimates sexual assaults among women service members surged 35% from 2018 to 2021, despite promises to curb the problem.

The Pentagon’s “senior mentor” program, left for dead more than a decade ago, is once again flourishing. Critics blast it as an ol’ boys network.

The retired officer, Gary Volesky, responded to a tweet Jill Biden sent about abortion. “Glad to see you finally know what a woman is,” he wrote.

Democrats want to repeal the military’s ban on abortion amid fears Roe v. Wade will be overturned. Some say it will make women less inclined to serve.